What are cons to use Cufon? Is sIFR still good option? @font-face doesn't make the letters smooth like they look with cufon or sIFR

Question

What are cons to use Cufon? in term of Web Standards, Accessibility and Performance.

I think if we need smooth text than sIFR is still best with screen reader compat

Answer 1

The best solution is to use @font-face. There are already fail-safe solutions for @font-face. sIFR and Cufon:

1. make it hard or even not possible to select/copy text
2. stop working when js is disabled

Look at the Fontsquirrel's font-face generator for a fail-safe solution.

The jagged corners are mostly caused by the operating systems font API. If you really do need to have smooth cornered fonts, instead of relying on js/flash, I'd suggest generating images on server side and with proper alt tags.